One cannot review a bad book without showing off.
Quote by W. H. Auden
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One cannot review a bad book without showing off.
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W. H. Auden Quotes
- Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can all of them make me laugh.
- False enchantment can last a lifetime.
- Acts of injustice done, Between the setting and the rising sun, In history lie like bones, each one.
- Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.
- Some books are undeservedly forgotten none are undeservedly remembered.
- What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.
- Desire, even in its wildest tantrums, can neither persuade me it is love nor stop me from wishing it were.
- Accurate scholarship can unearth the whole offence from luther untill noe that has driven a culture mad. From what occured at linz what huge imago made a psychopathic god. i and the public know what all schoolchildren learn those to whom evil is done do evil in return.
- No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
- One cannot review a bad book without showing off.
Best Quotes
- Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.
- We are a people that have always celebrated other people's success so long as we always had the opportunity to meet that success ourselves. That is the American nature. That is the American character. That is one of the things that makes us different from the rest of the world. And I'm afraid we could lose that or are on the verge of losing that.
- If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.
- Life's a fight. It's a good fight of faith.
- Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out of Fritz Lang's feeble imagination.
- I just want to do what I do best, and that's fight. I love it.
- Yes, I'm going to be the President of the United States. You know why? You think you can get chicks by being in the movies? You can really get chicks by being the President.
- Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.
- The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
- Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.